Thursday, September 27, 2007

26th September,2007 concert for 50 - 50 club in Chennai

It was a good evening as he was performing once again in a public concert for 50-50 Club at the SGS Sabha Wedding Hall premises on the 26th Sep'07. Knowing the audience taste and expectations Sathya had prepared for a list that at the end of the day was very much liked by the entire audience who had turned out in good number. Sathya had the team of M Rajeev on Violin, Thillaistanam R Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, J Sowrirajan on Kanjeera and Chandrasekara Sharma on the ghatmam.

Sathya started off the concert with a varnam composed by Sri S. V. Seshadri on Lord Vigneswara in the ragam Amrudhavarshini (may be the sudden rain in Chennai is due to this varnam only) set to Adi thalam and concluded with a mangalam on Lord Vigneswara with a Papanasam Sivan composition - Vignavinayaka Moorthikku Mangalam in Madhyamavathi. While he did a good raga lapana for three kritis he did open always with a outline of teh raga for every krithi. This as well as his singing the first line of each pallvi was in for great praise.

Both Sathya and Rajeev proved their talents in alapanas and kalpanaprayogams and the team was appreciated by one and all. While the concert was scheduled for 150 mts got reduced due to their meeting and for this one of the rasikas said that the shortened concert was indeed a great success as like the T20 worldcup.

The song selection was welcomed very much by the audience and the kalaparamanams of the krithis rendered were getting special applause. Due to time constraint the percussion team gave a sweet and short thani in Misrachaapu krithi - Pakalanilapadi on Karaharapriya. He performed the last two raagamalikas on the request by the audience. It was indeed a good exposure for Sathya and the instrument in particular, as there were almost only senior citizen who had attended the concert and almost every one personally appreciated Sathya's efforts in bring out the nuances of Carnatic on Keyboard.

The song list is as follows:

01. Varnam - Amrudhavarshini - Adi - S V Seshadri
02. Guruleka - Gowri Manohari - K'chaapu - Tyagaraja (R & KS)
03. Ramanannu brovara - Harikambodhi - Rupakam - Tyagaraja
04. Balasarasamurali - Keeravani - Adi - Oothukadu Venkata kavi (R)
05. Marugelara - Jayanthasri - Adi - Tyagaraja
06. Marivere - Anandha Bhairavi - M'chaapu - Shyama (R)
07. Yochana - Dharbar - Adi
08. Siva Siva - Bunthuvarali - Adi - Tyagaraja (R & KS)
09. Ragasudharasa - Andholika - Adi - Tyagaraja
10. Pakalanilapadi - Karaharapriya - M'chappu - Tyagaraja (R & KS)
11. Theeradhavillayattu - Raagamalika - Adi (Kandanadai) - Bharathi
12. Kuraionrum illai - Raagamalika - Adi - Rajaji
13. Vigna Vinayaka - Madhayamavathi - Adi - Papanasam Sivan

R - Raga alapana & KS - Kalpanaswaram